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Sunday, March 19, 2017

Society’s choice: Genuine vs artificial intelligence? “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”
― Edsger W.Dikstra

Photo: Marina Yoveva

"Artificial intelligence – a complex picture starts forming in our
minds simply at the mention of this notion. What have we learned about
it so far? How can robotics alter our daily routine after all?" argues Marina Yoveva.

Photo: TechDigg

Today, we are surrounded by “things” we often refer to as smart
gadgets that help us grow bigger both professionally and personally.
Cameras, video recorders, electronic machines, kitchen robots – all of
which we’ve come to know and use every single day without even realizing
it. If truth be told, we’ve embraced the robotics in our homes and
lives.What’s more, today we cam talk about electronic machines which are
able to diagnose a serious disease and write down a prescription for it.
Indeed, the world has changed.Can the MIT artificial intelligence really improve our world?“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and
general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able
to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.”-Alan TuringRealizing it or not, the MIT Artificial Intelligence
has become even “smarter” even though there are categories into which
we can break the notion, such as “weak” and “narrow” artificial intelligence (A.I.).Seeing things from a long-term viewpoint, the forming of general
levels of artificial intellect, let’s say, has been on the table for
quite some time. What’s mostly known about the narrow version of A.I is
that it has a restricted set of abilities mentally and physically,
whereas the strong A.I. level has been known to surpass a human’s
capability to provide a resolution regarding an issue.For instance, imagine playing a brain-boosting game, such as chess,
or solving a cognitive task. In this case, an artificial intelligence
featuring a strong A.I is without a doubt going to outperform an
individual’s efforts towards one and the same task.The so-called advanced, or strong A.I, has been an object of
thousands of counterfeit stories and myths. For the most part, all these
phony tales aim at having us in a state of fear and uneasiness because
of the robotics domination. A typical example of such a controversy is
related to the society’s beliefs about robotics stealing our jobs and
taking a wrong turn, just like it happens in the movies.Additionally, the maximum level of intelligence, or at least in the
way we recognize it, is on its way, but its goal is set on improving our
lives not taking them. Ultimately, it’s about the potential of
“smoothing” our fast-paced lives, not self-destroying them by creating
superintelligence...Marina ends her article with following:"After all, what’s essential at the end of the day is not how fast and
furious computers are, or how high the programming languages actually
are. What’s of great significance is that simply syntactic knowledge is
surely not sufficient for turning a robotic machine into a
semantics-understanding tool. Hence, the fears of dreadful scenarios of
machines being open for rationality and susceptibility are bound to be
completely doomed."Read more... Source: TechDigg

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I have an education in the teaching adults and adult learning from Roskilde University, with Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Human Resource Development (HRD) as specially studied subjects. I am the author of several articles and publications about the use of decision support tools, e-learning and computer-mediated communication. I am a member of The Danish Mathematical Society (DMF), The Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics (DSTS) and an individual member of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Note: Comments published here are purely my own and do not reflect those of my current or future employers or other organizations.